Online Course Creators design, produce, and monetise structured learning programmes sold directly to students — typically as self-paced video courses, live cohort-based courses, or hybrid workshop bundles. In India, this career sits at the intersection of the creator economy and a ₹75,000 crore (and growing) edtech market that spans Unacademy, Physics Wallah, upGrad, Vedantu, Coursera India, Udemy India, Teachable, and Graphy. The spectrum runs from solo subject-matter experts recording on a smartphone (Ankur Warikoo's early Webinar Empire courses at ₹2,999, CA Rachana Phadke's finance courses at ₹999) to full-fledged edtech businesses (GP Sir's Physicswallah that became a unicorn, Khan GS Research Centre for UPSC). Unlike institutional teaching, the course creator owns the audience, sets the price, keeps 60-97% of revenue (platform split varies), and faces no salary ceiling. The path demands a tight combination of deep subject expertise, video production, copywriting, community building, and India-specific financial compliance (GST 18% on digital services, TDS 194R above ₹20,000 in non-cash perks, income-tax advance payments on variable income). Entry is low-cost but discipline-heavy: most creators earn nothing for 6-18 months before hitting a sustainable revenue base.